Ascension – why wait?
Jesus said to his disciples, "Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."
It’s hard enough waiting for something when you know what’s going to happen. Remember the feeling of waiting for your birthday, or Christmas, when you were a kid? But it’s even harder waiting for something when you don’t know WHAT is going to happen, and you don’t know WHEN it’s going to happen. That’s what the disciples had to do – just sit still and wait. "Don’t leave the city until…" Why did Jesus make them wait? I think it was as much the sitting still as the waiting that was the point of the exercise. Just waiting a while, if you were getting on with other stuff in the meantime, wouldn’t be any big deal really. But having to sit still – not rush about or distract yourself with other things, just reach a place of stillness – meant that when the Spirit came they were ready to handle it.
Why did they have to wait for the Spirit? Maybe it wasn’t for any other reason than they had to wait until they were still enough to be able to take it in.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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probably also to make sure they didn’t miss it: that they didn’t get making their own program and not have time to schedule it in.